Be the Mothman you wish to see in the world

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great article. one thing i will add, i think, is how for many libs the election was a traumatic event. they deeply believed that it "should not be close", that democrats should *obviously* run away with it, and the fact we didn't must mean americans just LOVE trump's policies

It’s wild because a small # of republicans could put a finger to the wind (ie just look at the old dude) and decide to take back some of their own power by exerting congresses appropriations authorities. But they’re all too chickenshit to move one bit against him.

Reading this thread (or book if you really want to) should disabuse anyone thinking she should run again in ‘28. She doesn’t appear to be setting herself up for another run gladly, but I hope that’s true and not just optics

Shut it down, Dems. This is doing politics ‘the right way’

They have all the juice of Jeb! 2016 here

Now THIS is why the disaffected everyman voted for him again- we need the big beautiful firm paper, they’re saying it more and more

my sense of this term so far is that at any one time there 1-5 different people being president.

Paging Jake Tapper and the rest of the Biden Senility league to run breathless, front page coverage analyzing if the president is out to lunch. He’s reposting AI videos of himself that aren’t real!! He appears to be unaware of major, impending political crises!!

This is coming through I a few places lately- like the Kotek call. I am fascinated by the counterfactual of what if he didn’t have truly the worst people in the country in his ear? He’d still have his insane pet peeves and grievances and authoritarian instincts- but he dgaf abt 99% of policy!

This is the TRUTH and they WON’T let you say it anymore!!!

when I went to the store in the past they put a sticker on my shirt and gave me a cookie and let me play with the toys. I go to the store in 2025 and they want me to pay for my groceries myself and mommy doesn't drive me home? retvrn

“Do you remember when Walmart had fish tank?” Sound like a sleeper cell activation phrase

Our Elder Abused President

Out: body count In:

The Liberal Project spans centuries and is larger than any one country! The fight for individual liberties and true social virtue is not lost we have to reclaim our Truth!!!!

of all the things about ta-nehisi coates’s philosophy i wish people would internalize the main one is: sometimes you lose

yes. and i cannot say this strongly enough: online exchanges, no matter how deep, neither humanize nor fill the need to be with people. Too many are pretending it is enough in the new paradigm. Except it’s empirically destroying the generation most steeped in it. gotta touch grass.

"I am concerned that artificial intelligence will lead to people losing their ability to think critically," I say in a culture where 99% of people have no ability to think critically with or without AI

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

you are about to see the nation’s beer distributors—aka “the toughest lobby you’ve never heard of”—lose their fucking minds

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NEW: Trump the tyrant is on full display — but his acting out highlights how weak he is. Trump got his Comey indictment Thursday and issued a memo directing "domestic terrorism" investigations. And yet, both provided more evidence that Trump is losing. Tonight, at Law Dork:

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i stand with the former fbi director slash lesbian detective novelist against our nation’s game show host dictator and his forces of evil (a cartel of faucet manufacturers)

I wrote about the importance of optimism in politics, particularly when it comes to younger Americans.

Cyril E. Power, "The Escalator," c. 1929 collections.mfa.org/objects/479542

man what a way to come full circle from him going down the escalator at trump tower ten years ago to him pissing and shidding over the SHARP EDGES on a nonoperational escalator at the UN building

Hot take: I think everyone’s going a bit overboard on the liking and sharing the autism jokes now. Might be time to dial that one back a bit.

Objectively hilarious that Hakeem Jeffries engagement is sandwiched between "short porn" and "Cum Whores"

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

I do not want to give them any unearned good faith, but it does *look* like Schumer and Jeffries are building a narrative to shut the government down while blaming GOP intransigence and inability to compromise. Could be totally wrong! But all the moves they’ve made this time build this narrative

I've been vocally, publicly, on the side of shame since 2021, when people said not to shame people for breaking covid rules. The alternative to shame is criminilization which... has problems and often doesn't work for stuff like this

Is this just Joker: Folie a Deux?

Everything is computer Everybody transgender Too much liquid into that baby

One of the problems with the Cold War framing of “capitalism vs. socialism” is that it ignores the actual issue: *what* should be privately owned? “Capitalism” has been used to defend privatization of a wide, inappropriate range of government services to catastrophic effect. A 🧵, w notes on theory.

All the super straight, Christian, MAGA warriors broke down Grindr, the gay dating/sex app, yet again. The last time it broke down...the RNC in Wisconsin.

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

What in the actual fuck 😂

On the one hand, we were all burned last time by their ‘plan’, so no good faith warranted; but this isn’t inconsistent w/planning on getting a shutdown: they proposed a CR which they knew would fail, they think Trump won’t meet so it’s narrative bldg for ‘we tried to avoid this, it’s a GOP shutdown’

It’s even funnier this is the “really good lawyer” Trump is illegally instructing Bondi to put in charge of ‘prosecuting’ Tish James et al……yeah I’m sure the no-evidence ‘cases’ will be ably handled by this top-notch legal mind!

Bring back movie soundtrack singles where the rap verse tells the film synopsis and possibly even spoilers:

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

"This is not, in other words, a regime too powerful to be resisted; it’s only playing one on TV.... It can’t risk looking bogged down, looking constrained, or looking like it’s forced to plead a case." Very good piece on Trump, Kimmel, and corporate appeasement by @brianphillips.bsky.social

Again Bouie from the top rope

I know we’re all pretty inured to it by now, and this is clearly not the worst thing happening atm, but this is so gross and tacky and fundamentally offensive. Also is the Special Rich Birthday boy Visa money going to the US Govt, or right to Trump?

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED